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I don't think it divides fans at all. I think it's been a success. The only few issues we had were instances where the video referees didn't bother to indicate to the referee that he needed to view it to give his opinion. They just outsourced one decision maker for another and they got in wrong a few times, instead of utilising the option of getting the ref over to give his opinion. Apart from that it makes the game a lot fairer with a lot more correct decisions.

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Yeah, there was a tendency towards suggestion bias early on in the tournament (a few refs seemed to give a decision because they'd been asked to look at it, indicatingt hey must have msised something).But it seems they all had a debrief and that's stopped now.

VAR doesn't make the decisions though, i just think maybe the VAR refs should utterly impartial to decisions. Simply notify the ref that there seems to have been a XXX and ask for a review. As opposed to "you missed an elbow there".

I didn't like the idea at first but seeing how it's worked in this world cup, I'm on board with it.

It replaces controversy with anticipation of what's going to be the decision.

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Anything that helps get the right decision is worth sticking with. It's one thing being beaten fairly and squarely, but losing to incompetent refereeing hurts even more - there are so many incidents in the derbies alone that would've been overturned with VAR. Unless the panel is Danny Murphy, Jamie Redknapp and Brian Barwick.

It'd also be nice to see it used to stamp out the general petulance: diving, rolling around in faux agony, time-wasting, bitch-slapping etc. and the penalties awarded for those more severe. I also like the rugby way of stopping the clock if there's a pause in play; that way, there's no question over how long should be added on at the end.

VAR is the way forward, and after a few years of tweaks it will be bang on. But one thing that pisses me off more than a very, very small percent of bad refereeing decisions, is players acting that they have an injury, cramp, and especially holding their heads - even moreso when you see the replays and a player is hit in the arm, and he holds his head. I'd like to see another lead from Rugby, and allow the "injured" player as long as he wants to roll around on the ground, but permit a couple of medics from their team to come on and deal with them - even if in the penalty box or wherever. It would be the same for both sides, but would stop a lot of play acting, and allow the game to carry on without the ref having to stop the flow of the game.